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HONGKONG, BRTurday, zuse 1, 1907.

GOVERNMENT SALARIES AT

SINGAPORE.

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Native Officer · Killed,

emoluments should not depend upon THE EGYPTIAN TROUBLE. the fluctuation of exchange over which they have no control. Considering the extraordinary apathy that the communi- ty displays in régird to mattera which interest if directly it is perhaps uscless Twenty-one Men Missing. to hope that anything will be done here liy the publio to secure just treatment for the civil servants. That being so they should leave no stone unturned in the endeavour to secure justice them- seiros. Persistent agitation may stir the Colonial Office, for once, to intelligent activity.

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(Fiocclusion Service, supplied by Reuter,

via Bombayz.

LONDON, May 31. Reuter's correspondent at Cairo wires that a native officer and twenty- five men left Dongola during April and were not heard of again until the officer's body was found.

A sorgeant and three maca, were ros- qued but the remaining twenty-ons

THE MIDDLESEX

ELECTION.

According to the reports that are published in Cantou, no sooner was Visorey Shum reappointed to Canton than the business people and some of the gontry expressed their delight and are still missing. at once act to work to show their glad.] ness in a practical way. When Sham way thero last ho did something to lească taxation for some of the merchants. Rather, perhaps, it should be said that ho did something to make taxation leas voxatious, and that is something, for & half a loaf is botter than no brand. He arranged that native products, when being ripped from one ploco to an- other inland, should be taxed at one and only. Hitherto, in many cases duties were paid at the port of chip- Hornsey (Middlesex) in the Unionist ment and again at the port of dostina-interest. tion. The Viceroy arranged that ali

Aw extremely interesting discussion took place in the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements on May 21 when the proposal to increase the salaries of civil servants receiving less than £1,020 per annum was discussed. An unofficial the duties should bo collected at quo member, the Hon. Alr Fort, moved as an end. Now, therefore, the Chairaan S. WATSON amendment that the increase should be of the Chamber of Commerce has given to all cffcere whatever salary they published a leaflet or a communication were receiving and in the course of his of a kind and has scattered it broad- speech in support of the amendment he cast which nanounces the joy felt that the Viceroy is returning, and therein if made several telling points. It ap

is suggested that there be a public peared to him very false economy to pay holiday when Shum arrives to comme their government officers less than they morate his return. Verily, the ways of should be paid in relation to the in the Chinese are hard to understand,

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ERATED- portance of the duties they discharged and less than other places in the East. He also considered that the whole ques- tion of civil servants' salaries should be pathetically considered by a Con- initice of the Council. The Colongs financial position had, of course, to b5 MANUFACTURERS. kept in mind, but he was distinctly

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against urging that position as an au- gument against doing justice to the civil servants. Another unofficial member, the Hon. Mr Jolin Anderson, seconded the amenilinent and said he did not think that it would be denied by any

reasonable man that the civil servants of the Clay gore worthy of salaries ad- equate to the duties, they performed and to the position they were entitled to maintain. When the amendincul went to the vote six members rated for it and six against, the oficiale as n body voting against the amendment. The Governor, as io daly bound, gave his casting vote against the mendment which was ac cordingly lust. In replying to the speeches made by the unofficial mersbers His Excellency the Governor thanked LEMON SQUASH, etc., possess the those gentlemen most heartily for the tree favour of the finest Fresh Fritits and generous terms, in which they had are perfectly pure and wholesome. spoken of the services of the public ent ployees but he warned them that the amendment was one that could not be accepted. Holding that view it is clear that Sir John Anderson had no option

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Lord Ronaldsay is standing for

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SOUTH CHINA RIOTS.

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ROUNDABOUT NEWS.

Information from Formasa.

(From Our Corrispondent.}

SHANGHAI, June .. A telegram from Formos gives the following regarding the disturbances near Swatow:

The Government offices ut Huang- kang were attacked on May 99 and burnt, a dozen officers being killed. Chaoan was captured on May 24. Yaoping was occupied on May 25, several prefects being missing)

Linehang was also cuptured and officials were massacred,

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The insurgents style themselves re- volutionaries. Many are without

queves,

THE CRUISER CHANZY.

A Total Wreck.

› From Our Correspondait. į

SUAAL, June 1,

The French crniser. Chanzy has beer Abandoned as a total wreck.

The vessel is now standing stero down and bows up. " ..

The wrecking vessels have returned from the scene of the disaster..

ANOTHER SHIPPING

MISHAP

The Belum Ashore.

(From Our Correspondent.)"

NAGASAKI, June 1.. The Norwegian steamer Nelum is ashara on the Mgton Bank. She wae carrying à cargo of coal from Henkow: to Toungming.

Only officials are being molested. Insurgents marched on Chenght on. Mag 97 and threatened Changchou,

BRITISH CONSULAR SERVICE. Attacked the Imperial beadquarters

. Propositions for. Impróveinent.” opposite Swatos de May 26.

The casualties are about equal.

The following artiolo from a recent The Swatow Tootal is keeping back Stinbard will be read with interest:

The shortenings of the Consular service news bring frightened of foreign inter-have been for years past a favourite theme

The Liberale have decided not to vention. Only insurgent losses

given. oppose Lord tonaldshay,

(REUTER'S SERVION=)

THE OPIUM QUESTION.

Losos, May 30;

The Allahabad Pioneer states adrices! from the Persian Gulf show that the mer

chauts are watching with interest the negotiations for the restriction of Indiaa opium in China; and that the Porsaus ars

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MILITARY VETERANS.

for it is not long since the traders of prepared to supply Persian, if China dres Canton wore very angry with Shum not prohibit all foreign growu opium. owing to his doing in regard to rail- way matters; But perhaps they have found that whilst Shum chastised thom

them with scorpinie. with whips, Chou-fu has chastised

LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.

Mr H. Fiatcher, R.N.K.. bas neen sppointed Second Assistant Maring Surveyor during the absence on leave of Mr J. Macdonald.

The drizzling tain which fell inter mittently dering the day to doubt kept many people from attending the second Gynkhans at the racecourisa.

On Tuesday, June 11, a meeting of Justices of the Fesec will be held at the Magistraay, to consider su application from J. B. Barker to transfer the adjunct licenɛe of the

Western Hotel" to J. B. Moller,

Mrs Longworth will over bo Alice Ros. sovelt with the American people and papers, says a London journal. She afforded too many paragraph in her time for them to let her drop into elneurity. An "Alice" | sensation is always papular. The Presid ent's daughter has secured it with her new spring hat. It is a human little story enough. There is a Bird Protection So- city in America something on the lines of

the one here. It is called the Audubon

Society. Its headquarters are at Washing. ton, and its President is Mis Roosevelt Its members are pledged to a war against the wearing of birds in ladies' hats, ami so zealous and so active lins boen the cam fpaign that wings and plaines and birds were

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LONDON, May 20.

The King s ritel 114 officers, the survivors of the siege of Delhi, and the defence of Lucknow, to a lorée on the

3rd June.

BRITISH EDITORS IN EDRLIN.

LANDO, May 30.

At a banquet to the British editors in

are with those who are anxious about the

future of British lande abrand.. The Con suls of the old school wore charming folk, often capable of conducting the minor diplomacy entrusted to them, with zdroit noss, and delightfully accoitinodating to the happy-go-lucky British traveller, wha Entrenched in the Wet Moun had left his purso on the pine," and

THE WONGKONG GANG.

tains.

stagly entrenched. They have set up their flags there, which, na we have read before, have been besmeared with blood, Though they suffered some kind

of

required a loan of five pounds to pay hiể faro home. But of the condition of tende (From: Our Correspondent, )

they were, except by accident, completely ignorait, and the promotion of British. CANTON-May 31.

trade is the chief, though not the only According to ilie reports that come in function of the Consular office, In from Wongkong in the district of Chiu 1993 Lord Lansdowne appointed a Depart Chan, though the rioters have been montal Committee of the Foreign Office, charged to inquiry into the methods beaten, moro cr less, they are yet by which, candidates log the. Consular sex- strongly garrisoned at a place called the vice were selected, and to make suggestions for improvement, That Committee report- Wet Mountains. They, moreover, are fed that it was desirable that the age limit for admission to the service should be fixed of age; that candidates should undergo n between twenty-twound twenty-soron y'eau

competitive examination in the English, French, and German languages, commer- cint geography and arithmetic, nicmantile law, and political economy, and that they should be required to satisfy the Se- cretary of State that they had recoir- four or five

five years. A Consul, from us that, of thirteen appointments made to whom wo publish an muticle to-dity, informs

Vice-Consulships since the Committee reported, only one of these appointed has This result is, as he remarks, "profoundly

contmercial training at disappointing," since it seems but t acceptusted the Chinenosystem of adınitting men to ofices according to their proficiency iti answering questions on paper, which, has been the curse of c

urse of our public services for. as

becna men Vico-Consul he known fore French, and Gernian than another is a notable instagou of the woodenhondedness which makes the task of advocating administrative reform in this country such a heart breaking business

a repulse many others are flocking

Berlin, Herr Maclilborg, the Under. Se- their standards, and it is said that the commercial training extending over crotary for Foreign Affairs, repudiated the | riolers DOW mber many thou ides that Germany was a menace to the sands. They have issued proclamations, in which they urge the people to attend to their regular duties and then they

pence of the world,

The Navy of Germany was only intended to protect her coasts, and her commerco everywhere.

In Asia and Africa, Gormany aimed saly will not be molested. It is said that at the open door.

these proclamations are signed by Suen, representing the civil section of the affair, and by Hung representing the military element.

JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA.

LONDON, May 30. A committee of 70 infucotisi mon has bean formed in San Francisen for the purpose of fighting the forces of disorder.

PORTUGAL.

LONDON, May 30. The political situation in Portugal is

obscary.

The King has isunod a number of die-

tutorial decross.

The Municipal Councils throughout the

kingdom protest against the dissolution of without fixing a date for the election,

-_www

Speaking of the steamer Aldenham, xe-

These two'narces by the way are very

significant. "Suen" is the name of Son Yat-san,, who is known to be rest less, and whose life has been sought by the Chinese Government more than once. "Hung" was the nanio of the leader of the Taiping Rebels, and is

to

A Consul" is desirous that the Toraign ice should in future offer more of the appointinents to commereint Candidates However desirable this may be, and it. unquestionably is desirablo, it is impossible to avoid asking the question whether the servico is suficiently remunerative to Altmet

of the right young men

stamp who. have had their foot on the commercial ladder, for four or five years. The

still a mume dreadedi in some parts of Consul

China.

afa Vich siromabout Legatosbout £600 gear the prizes of t

to £1,000 a year

We feat that the knowledgo The fact that the proclamations are of French ant German, mercantile last men possessed of the signed by these two varces, whether and political economy who would seek

such posts, after having done fre

¿yward. nou de plumes or not, is suggestive of work in a commercial house, would be those. wlio, from one defeat of character or olur, had proved failures. If they were

the right stamp,

up, socially and intellectual ly, with the

in the capacity for dealing with Consular posicce in doing so which

i densands, their

proaposta in the ordinary coneso.if commerco te too over in a foreign provincial for the chance of give up

own way.

Back from Pakhoi.

mon and

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Necord scheme suggested by

"A Consul" scoms to us mero hopeful,

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He proposes that, after tha competitive examination his barons successfully passed, the vandidates should, then, before ng point out, receive a training in the practis cal working of commerco. A similar plan, 能

it they be noted, is a

is adopted in the case of successful candidates for the Indian Civil of whom a selected number pass cuare bofore taking

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PRINCE FUSHIMI.

Lounos, May 30, Prince Fushimi was to-iny outertained hend-goar. Thon lo and behold, Mrs at a farowell luncheon at Buckingham what is meant by die uprising, if the a Legislative Council has no power to Longworth walking through the streats of Palace, at which the Prince and Princess insurgents should be able to have their alter a recommendation made by the Washington in a new Easter hat. And of Wales and the Duke and Dueloss of beverage of delightful flavour and stome. Secretary of State for the. Colonies want a hat! In American phraseology it Connaught were present.

is perfectly stunning. It is a white chip Its agreeable arumatic properties mako it shows how absolutely impotent such | turban, twisted up rather high on one side, specially antable for this climate.

Į a body is in a Crown Colony. The dead and irregular in shaps. The trimming is n

band of light green velvet and--horror-cently acquired by the E. and A. no to The British torpedo destroyer Ful OUR SARSAPARILLA is not only weight of an indifferent hand, thousands on a side of the chip hat there snuggles replace the wrecked Australi, a Sydney rendhet part from Pakhoi this morning, all Bos do PLATZ, 85 Gracechurch St., & delicious drink but a blood purifier as of roilea away, pressta over upon the cheo to the brim a large white dove, its paper says: The didenham was originally being quiet at the latter place. The Teku

eyes looking straight ahead, and its benutian Abordeen liner, being known as the weat down to Pakhoi last Saturday. Council. Their knowledge of local cou-ful wings spread backwards. Oh! Alice: Nineveh, and she was only recently pur- ditious and requirements is as nothing Washingta looks agape and asks, What chased by the E. and A. Company, to moot compared to the careless utterance of a is stepmother paying?"

the requirements of the Eastern trade. Just before he left Biarritz King award The steamer is well and favorably known drove in his motor-car to the little frontier A Coolie Fight. D. J. KEYNER & Co., S, Whitefriars scientifically from finest Jamaica Ginger, not name the capital cities of one balf of Shortly before three o'clock this for speed and comfort. under the ing to the Comte Louis de Contaut Biron. Student Interpreters destined for the Persin, who either tako a university Great Britain's dependencies if he were afternoon & fight between two coolies took Aberloun line in sure to be well maintained One of the guides of the place, scenting a service in the Far East, in Egypt, or in

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Taken as a whole they are a hardwork-Tho Bandmann Comedy Company.

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SUMMER DIARRHOEA IN CHILDREN. URING to hot weather of the sammer Dinen are anatural logemees

ablo.

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lera and Diarrhoea Remedy successfully in | last night, by the Bandmann Comedy his home and writes the manufacturers of A. S. WATSON & 00, they are receiving. A large proportion Company. Miss Florenco Hamer and Ms this medicino su follows: Wo Aro unver

of thet are working for much less than Clauds King took the funding parte, but certainly deserves success as it is worth attention, do as to check the flours before the bee-martin, which had a trick of rufl

this remedy in our house and it of a child's bowels should have immediate LIMITED,

they believed they were contracting for they were well supported by Miss Dorcas more than you claim for it. For pain in it becomes socious. All that la necessary ing up the forthors on the top of its head The community generally is not desirous Corbin, Miss Holen Grenville, and Messrs the fonde, da ne equal. It has been used is a few desen of Chamberlain's Colic, into the exact, semblanco. of a beautiful

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